| Code | DS/UK/1537 |
| Dates | 14/05/1900-12/09/1971 |
| Person Name | Wind; Edgar (14/05/1900-12/09/1971); Prof. Dr.phil |
| Surname | Wind |
| Forenames | Edgar |
| Title | Prof. Dr.phil |
| Activity | Art Historian. Kenan Fellow and Lecturer for Philosophy at University of North Carolina (1925-); Assistant at Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg; Associate Professor at University Hamburg (1930-1933); Vice-Director of Warburg Institute (1934-1942); Visiting Lecturer at Institute of Fine Arts at NYU; Professor for History of Art at University of Chicago (1942-1944); Professor at Smith College Northhampton (1944-1955); professor for History of Arts at Trinity College Oxford. |
| Relationships | Son of Maurice Delmar Wind and Laura Wind, née Szilard; married Margaret Kellner (1942). |
| History | Studied History of Art, Philosophy and Archaeology in Berlin, Freiburg, Vienna, Hamburg; doctoral dissertation (1922); habilitation (1929); emigrated to England (1934), then USA (1939-1955), then GB (1955-). |
| Source | Sears, Elizabeth. “Edgar Wind on Michelangelo.” in, Wind, Edgar. The Religious Symbolism of Michelangelo: the Sistine Ceiling. Oxford 2000; Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Research Guide to the History of Western Art. Chicago 1982, p. 78; Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: An Anthology of 20th-Century Writings on the Visual Arts. New York 1971, pp. 63, 34 n. 72, 45 n. 90, 63 n. 1445; Gilbert, Creighton."Edgar Wind as Man and Thinker" New Criterion 3 no. 2 (October 1984): 36-41; Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l'histoire d l'art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris 1986, p. 227; Eisler, Colin. "Kunstgeschichte American Style: A Study in Migration." In The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America: 1930-1960. Edited by Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn. Cambridge 1969, p. 618; Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart 1999, pp. 474-477; James McConica. "Edgar Winds Oxforder Jahre" in Edgar Wind: Kunsthistoriker und Philosoph. Berlin 1998, pp. 3-9; The Dictionary of Art 33: 242-3; Wendland, Ulrike. Biographisches Handbuch deutschsprachiger Kunsthistoriker im Exil: Leben und Werk der unter dem Nationalsozialismus verfolgten und vertriebenen Wissenschaftler. Munich 1999, vol. 2, pp. 774-779; [obituary:] "Edgar Wind Dies: Art Historian." New York Times. September 18, 1971, p. 32. |
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